What's the difference between gnathic and gnathopodite?
Gnathic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the jaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Michigan splint is an occlusal appliance for patients with functional disturbances of the gnathic system.
(2) Such osteonecrosis occurred mainly in gnathic bone.
(3) The present study furthermore points to the importance of medical bionics and its methods for solving some other problems of the gnathic system.
(4) In spite of this, ecobotanical data indicate that we can probably reject the hypothesis that these hominids were year-round gnathic nut-cracking specialists.
(5) The progress of 23 adult patients during treatment for gnathic dysfunctions was monitored by gnathosonic techniques and graphs of the fluctuations in occlusal sound duration were studied.
(6) A one-stage surgical correction of gnathic deformities involving both jaws is described.
(7) A normal adult becomes a normal old man when going through a whole process of physiologic involution called natural ageing, which does not spare the stomato-gnathic system.
(8) Preliminary estimates of adult male gnathic nut-cracking capabilities suggest that A. boisei could have orally cracked a significant portion of the woodland nuts.
(9) Some Miocene hominoids may have been extremely sexually dimorphic for body size, inferred from the apparent dimorphism of dental and gnathic remains.
(10) The gnathic bones were commonly affected, yet there was no associated mortality.
(11) During growth and development of the gnathic bone in infants, it is not possible to observe the processes of resorption of the bone and deciduous tooth root, bone formation and calcification of the permanent teeth separately.
(12) The classification was found useful for identifying patients prone to gnathic dysfunctions as a significantly higher proportion of these patients were in Class C than in Class A.
(13) The dentitions of 146 children with cerebral palsy showed a high incidence of gnathic anomalies.
(14) In the gnathic bone of infants where a normal balance exists between formation of new tissue and resorption, the formative bone tissue is closely related to the cells which give rise to the deciduous and the permanent teeth.
(15) Phase II is the compensatory phase of the occlusion consisting of occlusal equilibration, occlusal restorations, orthodontic treatment and gnathic surgery if needed.
(16) The authors pay complex attention to the research of the gnathic system, focused first of all to the mechanical interactions towards solid formations of the gnathic system.
(17) Report is made about the combined therapy with cytostatics (methotrexate - bleomycin) and irradiation in patients with extended tumors in the gnathic region.
(18) The hypothetical hyperrobust australopithecine gnathic nutcracker adaptation is reexamined in light of ecobotanical information on edible wild nuts provided by the flora of tropical and subtropical Africa.
Gnathopodite
Definition:
(n.) Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds.